English

Helen Clark

2 November, 05:48

Read the selection below from the poem "The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere" by Marjorie Allen Seiffert and answer the question that follows.

I send you three grey cats with gifts-

(For uniformity of metaphor,

Since Bacchus, Satan, and the Hangman

Are not contemporaneous in my mythology)

I send you three grey cats with gifts,

Queen Guinevere,

To warn you, sleekly, silently

To pay the forfeit.

Which poetic device does the speaker use in the line, "Since Bacchus, Satan, and the Hangman"?

allusion

hyperbole

simile

metonymy